{"id":46303,"date":"2016-03-31T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46303"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:27:29","slug":"whos-the-most-photographed-american-man-of-the-19th-century-hint-its-not-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46303","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It\u2019s not Lincoln…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It\u2019s not Lincoln…<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2016-03-15<\/p>\n

Jennifer Beeson Gregory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass<\/a> would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken word, but also the power of the visual image \u2014 especially, his own likeness. He therefore sat for portraits wherever and whenever he could. As a result, Douglass was photographed more than any other American of his era: 160 distinct images (mostly portraits) have survived, more than Abraham Lincoln<\/a> at 126. Many of these rare, historically significant images are published for the first time in \u201cPicturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century\u2019s Most Photographed American<\/a>,\u201d by John Stauffer<\/a>, Zoe Trodd<\/a> and Celeste-Marie Bernier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This book shows all 160 photos and delves into Douglass\u2019s life and passions, including photography. In his writings, Douglass praises Louis Daguerre<\/a>, who invented the daguerreotype<\/a>, which made the developing process easier and cheaper, and in turn made photography available to the masses. By the mid-19th century, there were portrait studios all over the Northern United States. Almost everyone in a free state could afford to have their picture taken \u2014 even non-whites. Douglass therefore called photography a \u201cdemocratic art.\u201d…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nUnknown Photographer, Honeymoon with Helen Pitts<\/a> in Niagara Falls, N.Y.<\/a>, August 1884. Albumen print<\/a> (Frederick Douglass National Historic Site\/National Park Service)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It\u2019s not Lincoln… The Washington Post 2016-03-15 Jennifer Beeson Gregory Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,24,5,459,8,20],"tags":[21740,84,23355,5506,147,2875,2581,21739],"class_list":["post-46303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-arts","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-celeste-marie-bernier","tag-frederick-douglass","tag-jennifer-beeson-gregory","tag-john-stauffer","tag-photography","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post","tag-zoe-trodd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46304,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions\/46304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}